An Attack On One?

NATO did nothing when Saudi Arabia murdered Jamal Khashoggi on the soil of a NATO member-state. But it is to meet to consider its response to the possible poisoning of Alexei Navalny on the soil of the decidedly non-NATO state of Russia, of which he is a citizen. Note that present tense. Navalny is still alive.

The consistently pitiful vote for Navalny and his succession of star vehicles is the judgement of voters who are given any other option than NATO's ideology of an economic and social liberalism that the use of soft power where possible but hard power where necessary had made unquestionable at home, so that the use of soft power where possible but very hard power where necessary could spread it across the whole wide earth, the exercise of that hard power being the purpose of NATO.

Why would Vladimir Putin want to kill someone whose electoral performance demonstrated so perfectly the Russian people's rejection of NATO's ideology? But if Putin had indeed wanted to kill Navalny, then Navalny would be dead. Say it again that he is not.